Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 04:20:43PM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0500, zhang zhengquan > (zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > If I use lvm for the rest of the drive except /boot, can I possibly > > reduce the size of the lvm volume group and get some fre

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So if I understand it correctly it is not multiboot situation. Indeed. For multiboot, you can use the same setup if all your alternative boots understand LVM (e.g. various versions of GNU/Linux), or if your other OSes are run from within GNU/Linux (e.g. with VirtualBox). That's usually the pre

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0500, zhang zhengquan (zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com) wrote: > If I use lvm for the rest of the drive except /boot, can I possibly > reduce the size of the lvm volume group and get some free space > unformatted not controlled by lvm? You can, but that'll be a lot

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm >>> partitions. >> >> Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume.  I always partition my root >> drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single >> partition devoted to LVM.  Actually, I also do that for >>

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier : >> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm >> partitions. > > Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume.  I always partition my root > drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single > partition devoted to LVM.  Actually, I a

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/2 Celejar : > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:18:36 -0500 > zhang zhengquan wrote: > >> 2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier : >> >> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm >> >> partitions. >> > >> > Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume.  I always partition my root >> > drives

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:18:36 -0500 zhang zhengquan wrote: > 2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier : > >> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm > >> partitions. > > > > Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume.  I always partition my root > > drives with a 100-200MB /boot partit

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm > partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume. I always partition my root drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single partition devoted to LVM. Actually, I also do that for secondary&external

Re: Re : lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/2 Eloillaf Mhamed : > > > > > > - Message d'origine > De : zhang zhengquan > À : debian-user@lists.debian.org > Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s > Objet : lvm and multiboot > > Hello, Debian community, > I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny > ins

Re : lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread Eloillaf Mhamed
- Message d'origine De : zhang zhengquan À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s Objet : lvm and multiboot Hello, Debian community, I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny installation. I have met with partition size problem